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Tuesday, 27 January 2015

Traveling refers to
exploring places, visiting sites and having a good time. It may be due to some
business deal or vacations. Vacations are always fun and traveling is exciting.
Everyone loves traveling around the world. It is adventurous and you gain new experiences.
You get to know different people and about different cultures and increase your
knowledge. Not everyone can afford traveling to beautiful places and planning
vacations. This needs budget planning. The rising inflation and expensive
tickets and all the expenses are hurdle in traveling. There must be proper
budget planning and calculation to make your trip a successful one with more
traveling, fun and enjoyment and less expenditure and luggage. Following are
some important tips which might be of benefit while traveling:

Tips
to save Money while Travelling out of KSA

Cut
down budget-travel yourself: One can just avoid hiring
tour guides to take you to places. It’s just unnecessary in today’s world where
you can easily explore and discover places yourself. Avoiding spending for
hiring guide will help you save a lot which you can use at some other place.
Search on internet, surf websites, join tour forums and collect reviews from
people who already visited that place and plan accordingly. This will allow you
to explore according to your convenience and that too in less budget.

Food
planning: Food takes most of the budget. When traveling, the most
expensive thing is food because you don’t know about that place and the
cheapest food item over there. Also after money value conversion it might get
expensive. So it’s always better to travel with less clothes and more food,
preferably dry food stuff should be packed in luggage for traveling. Tin packed
food and frozen food might help as well. You can use this food while you
travel, cutting down your expenses spent on food. If you don’t want to carry
food, always go for the multinational food chains like Pizza Hut, Burger King, and
McDonalds etc. You will get it in the same price as you pay in your own
country.

Ticketing: Plan
your vacations 1-2 months in advance. This will allow you to keep a check on
websites with discounts on tickets or packages which will cost you really less.
Also it’s seen that tickets are very cheap when you buy those months in advance
as compared to getting them really close to the date of traveling. Also
connecting flights and round trip tickets are bit cheaper. Subscribe to many
airlines newsletters so that you are the first one to know about the promotions
of Airlines. Travelling through the budget airlines like Flynas in Saudi Arabia
can also cut your ticket expenses. The period in which you travel can also help
you cut down your expenses. For example, you can buy cheap airline tickets to
European and American countries during winter. Some days ago, Saudi Airline was
offering return ticket from Jeddah to New York for SR 2,500/-. Normal price is
more than SR 4,000/-

Travel
light: Pack in less stuff in your bags and avoid oversized
bags as it’ll charge you extra on airport. Some budget airlines offer you
discount if you just want to travel with handbags. In this way, you can cut
down travelling expenses. If you are travelling for 3,4 days, why do you need
extra luggage?

Car
rentals: Avoid using rent-a-car and taxis because it will cost
you more. Or if you are traveling through these, try to get smallest car
possible to avoid extra expenditure on its gas. Use public transport which is
the cheapest and allows you to communicate with the local people, which may
help you find more good spots. Travel during night for long trips to save time
and money for accommodation. If the place is near, walk till there.

Local
prepaid Sims: For connectivity use local prepaid Sims
which will cost you very less instead of getting tons of roaming charges by
your own telecom company. But if you are going to a country where nobody knows
you, I think getting local SIM is a waste of money. Keep your number active in
roaming and receive only selected calls.

Off
Season: Plan your vacations when it is not New Year or any
festival/occasion. You’ll get less prices and less crowd on almost
everything/everywhere.